Allergy problems

[Curiousitykilledthecat1225]

I keep having sinus problems of late. Most recently, I've had a lot of post nasal drip. It will go away but then eventually comes back and is just awful when triggered by a common cold. I notice it's worse with the onset of rain or change in temperature. However, I was tested via my blood for environmental allergens and mold and ragweed came up as absent or undetectable for ige antibodies while dust mites was moderate.

How does this explain my allergies being worse during the rain? And does this mean I have to get rid of my down pillows which I love. I never had this problem earlier in life (30s now) and have had down for a while.

[Simpleman74]

first to brenda, Often times people here read the questioneers question and not all the rest, then may answer or not. Now 2 things not so good here. One is they may not see your post and eliminate maybe the person who has an answer for you to miss you. And I have also seen times on forums where someone jumps into someone elses post and people start answering theirs while the focus gets taken away from the original poster. And that is not good either. And I am sure you were not trying to do that. But you would be better off to create your own post. You will get better attention that way and not take away from the original poster attention. Please ask your question on a new post. :)

Curiousity: Just a tid bit here. When you have a cold, the immune gets busy and sometimes prioritizes to fight it off. Allowing your mild allergy to thrive. Thus this doesn't mean that the two are related. But I suppose they could be. And yes, change of temp. can do pretty much the same thing.
Hope you find your answer soon.

[Bren8519]

Need help badly. I have been coughing for over a year. Mostly at
night and in the am. I have lots of drainage and congestion. I
am currently doing allergy shots due to trees, grass, and mold
it said. I had a lung funtion test did poorly in the yellow zone,
chest xray good, sinus cat scan good, and swallow test good.
I am using Clariting, Flonase, and Ventolin Inhaler for Asthma
nothing is working. I still get runny nose and cough. I am losing
sleep and really feel like it is killing me. Help anyone?

[Simpleman74]

This site is not about showing up other people to look like a big deal. Like you are so smart. It is about helping people dude.
My comment was exactly right, nothing more needed to be said. Spend your time helping or shut it!

[dpthots]

Let's rationalize. Rain, less allergens, which should ease allergy symptoms, right? But what likes humidity? Mold and fungus.

Boil water on your stove and (carefully, don't scald your sinuses) breathe the water vapors for about 15 minutes. If you have an allergy, it should help. If it makes your sinuses more congested, suspect some type of fungal infection. (Of course it won't work well either way, if you are impossibly congested)

I tried, for 40 years, to treat what I was told by doctors was an allergy. I got worse, year after year. The last 3 winters spent a lot of time next to the woodstove, trying to get my nose to clear. Sinus surgery last year helped little, in fact in some ways, got worse. I got better after starting treating myself for a fungal problem.

Dropped my internet search result info from a couple of medical sites at my doc, with a note to call, if he thought I was wrong- haven't heard from him since, and doing great.

[Simpleman74]

Are you serious? wow

[dpthots]

Look up what I told you, it will answer that. It probably isn't an allergy.

[Simpleman74]

Have you ever been in a really dry house and your nose gets very dry inside? This is because the heat and dry air evaporates moisture in the air. Your mild allergies give your nose the sniffles. But so little that the dry air dries it up before it accumulates. So lets say that if the air wasn't ever dry, you would always have some runny nose from this moderate allergy okay? Now. Take away this drying factor with rain or snow "moist air" and the nose doesn't dry up before it accumulates any longer. Thus this minor problem which is so minor that the air "if not moist" dries your sinus from you breathing this air in and out. Right?
So when the air is wet, this drying factor disappears  and you are left with a runny nose. This is just a guess but it seems a good one. Painting with a heavy oil paint is hard in wet conditions. Because it takes too long to dry and ends up having runs.  I have put on oil paint very heavy in warn dry conditions and it starts to evaporate quite quickly. But cool and/or moist air, and it can take forever.
Thus proving to a degree that warm and or dry air is drying your sinus before it ends up running out.
Because too rain cleans allergens from the air it is better not worse. Well except for mold allergies for mold grows with wet air. But even that takes time. A wet spring will bring more mold spore in summer.
I could be wrong. This is off the cuff. I had no prior knowledge of worse allergy when it's wet out.

[dpthots]

Don't get rid of those pillows yet. Look at some of my recent posts, or do a search on Candida Albicans. Find a reputable site to get your information from.